But the plaintiffs have presented evidence that the blanket freeze imposed by the memo appears to remain in effect regardless. On Wednesday, the White House press secretary declared on social ...

White House defends funding freeze The Independent has contacted the White House and OMB for comment. Since its inception, the funding freeze has been marked with confusion. Last week, facing ...

A U.S. judge on Tuesday extended an order blocking President Donald Trump's administration from instituting a sweeping freeze ...

U.S. District Judge Loren Alikhan sided with a group of nonprofit organizations, saying that a freeze on federal assistance "may be crossing a constitutional line." ...

The judge cited the potential “catastrophic” impacts of Trump’s plan and on Monday issued an order preventing new restrictions.

She noted that White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said last week that the freeze would continue even as the OMB memo enacting it was withdrawn. “It appears that OMB sought to overcome ...

A federal judge on Tuesday indefinitely blocked the Trump administration’s freeze of federal funding, dealing a stark blow to President Trump’s sweeping efforts to realign government spending with ...

Nearly $2 billion in federal funding is being withheld from Illinois, Gov. JB Pritzker and lawmakers said in a letter ...

Dan Bishop, a former House lawmaker, said he expects the White House to avoid cuts to Social Security and Medicare.

On January 29, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) rescinded M-25-13, which it had issued two days earlier, and which required federal agencies to "temporarily pause all activities ...

But a series of conflicting statements from the White House — including a botched clean-up effort by OMB — have created doubts about potentially devastating consequences if the freeze is ...

minutes before the funding freeze had been set to take effect. The order, which is set to expire Monday, prompted the White House to walk back OMB’s memo, and DOJ has since asked the court to ...